Once again, Newfield’s boys have taken quite nicely to this whole state basketball playoff deal.

The Trojans constructed leads of 13 points through a quarter and 23 by halftime of a 67-46 roll past Section 1 champion Martin Luther King in Tuesday’s Class D first-rounder at Johnson City High School.

Freshman dead-eye Jacob Humble scored 22 points with five three-point goals and sophomore LaRon Boykin missed two field goal attempts in an 18-point outing that sent Newfield into a quarterfinal Friday against Section 11 champion Bridgehampton.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Center Moriches High in Suffolk County.

The Trojans, state runner-up to Moriah a season ago, exhibited a thorough style of basketball against an overmatched opponent that had not played since Feb. 23. Section 1’s Class D bracket was a three-team affair.

The lead was Newfield’s for good once Humble stroked a three-pointer — with time and space to spare — from the left corner with 5:15 expired to make it 8-6. That was part of a string of 17 consecutive Trojans points.

That spree began with Humble converting an old-fashioned three-point play, continued with his corner three, and picked up with Josh Wood finishing on the break and tacking on a free throw.

Another three from the corner by Humble made it 14-6. Greg Moravec hit a free throw, Moravec converted Humble’s feed in transition, and Boykin netted a shot from the baseline to close the quarter and make it 19-6.

MLK, which hails from just outside Yonkers, came up with the first three field goals of the second quarter to draw within 21-12 before Newfield tore off on a put-away stretch of ball.

Humble revisited that available room in the left corner to bag another three and followed with a hit-ahead off a turnover. Moravec, set up by Humble on the run, was whacked and made two free throws, then Quintel Clements struck for consecutive goals 29 seconds apart to widen the lead to 32-12.

Just because he could, Humble showed his stuff from long range a couple more times.

He set up shop near the left corner for one, then, patiently in transition, stepped back into a three from the wing and it was 39-14 in the final minute of the half.

“We saw that they played the same type of zone last year, that 3-2 zone,” Trojans coach Chris Bubble said of MLK, which fell by 17 to Newfield at this stage last March. “We have some set offenses for it, overload one side of it. And we feel like with Quintel in the middle they have to pay attention to that, and we knew if they were going to pay attention to that we’d have some guys open on the perimeter.

“Jacob heated up and they left him open a lot, so he continued to hit shots. He’s a young guy and what I like about him is he allows us, when we need to, to put Greg at the two so he can score a little more. Tonight with their defensive pressure, we wanted Greg to play the one, which makes Jacob play the two and that means he gets a lot of shots.

“He’s a pretty smart young ballplayer and he has the opportunity when he’s shooting it well, he can fill it up because he can also finish at the front of the rim in our transition game.”

“We didn’t prepare as well as I thought we did. To their credit, they stopped an offense that can actually run,” said MLK coach Victor Laurenceau. “I thought Newfield did an exceptional job, they stayed with their game plan and unfortunately we weren’t able to do so.

“Their offense, they space out extremely well. Moravec is an excellent guard, sees the court, reads it and he makes the freshman that much better.”

He added, “Obviously, we were scouted better than I scouted Newfield. Hats off to their coaches.”

The best player on the floor, Newfield senior Clements, scored a mere four points. However, he closed with 15 rebounds, four assists and three steals— illustrating for the umpteenth time his worth to this bunch.

“The great thing about him is, he’s a little bit old-school in that he doesn’t feel like he’s useless if he doesn’t score 20 a game,” Bubble said. “He does all the little stuff that is so important to a team that you can’t necessarily quantify in a scorebook or in a stat book.”

And “Q” was rewarded for doing as much by being named the Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Small School South Most Valuable Player.